Deborah Visser

Education

Professor Visser graduated from Calvin College in 1991 with a degree in English. She earned her M.A. from Wayne State University and her teaching certificate in secondary education at the University of Michigan in 1994. For several years she taught high school in the Research Triangle Park area in North Carolina.

Biography

Recent Activites

During this past academic year, Debbie has been doing some work for Calvin’s Festival of Faith and Writing, learning more about the publishing world and researching some of the authors who will be speaking at the 2016 Festival.

Favorite Books

Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt

Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

Far, Far Away by Tom McNeal

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympicsby Daniel James Brown

The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Hobbies

Being an active spectator at her teenage boys’ soccer and futsal games